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Source: https://www.moodlenews.com/2018/animated-badges-and-team-leaderboards-just-the-latest-in-the-peoples-gamification-solution-favorite-level-up/ It is not easy to stand out in increasingly crowded fields. Pioneers of learning gamification tools find themselves so popular that waves of copy-cats follow after new launch. What are the top players to do? If they are true leaders in their field, they’ve been plotting their next act for a while, ready to…

Source: https://www.moodlenews.com/2018/record-unlimited-audio-and-video-in-moodle-3-5-no-plugins-required/ The Atto text editor, one of the two Moodle offers by default, now comes with the ability to record audio and video straight from the editing interface, beginning in Moodle 3.5. When enabled, the Atto editor will feature two new buttons on the options bar. To enable access to your device’s microphone and camera,…

Source: http://tandl.churchward.ca/2018/06/implementing-moodles-privacy-api-in_6.html Continuing the series on implementing Moodle’s Privacy API in my questionnaire plugin, I will add code to handle deletion of user data. The documentation indicates that there are two functions to implement. The delete_data_for_all_users_in_contexthandles deleting all users’ data for a provided context when a defined retention period has expired. The retention period is part of the new…

Source: http://tandl.churchward.ca/2018/05/implementing-moodles-privacy-api-in.html The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR has now come into effect. Essentially it is a regulation in EU law designed to protect the privacy of online data for individuals within the EU. As such, any online service providers who work within the EU, or have members from the EU, need to address their…

Source: https://www.moodlenews.com/2018/interact-more-with-h5p-check-out-a-scoop-of-upcoming-features-for-moodle/ Not ones to rest on their laurels, the team behind H5P pushed through after continued success and recognition, including their “Best Free and Open Source Software for Education” nod from the Open Consortium’s 2018 Open Education Awards. Here are the main highlights of what H5P is working on, to be ready throughout the second quarter of the…

Source: https://moodle.com/development/feature-friday-mobile-support-plugins/ Have you used our Moodle Mobile App as an educator or a learner? If you haven’t it may only be a matter of time until you do as there is a growing requirement to take learning outside of the classroom and to make your learning accessible everywhere and anytime. In keeping with this trend and our…

Source: http://tandl.churchward.ca/2018/03/looking-at-moodles-new-plugin.html David Mudrack, of Moodle HQ released a plugin called the “My Todo List” block. While functional, its real purpose is to show off the latest advanced coding techniques available in recent versions of Moodle. See his Tweet. From the readme: The main purpose of this plugin is to demonstrate usage of advanced coding techniques available in…

Source: https://www.moodleworld.com/how-to-record-students-attendance-in-moodle/ Are you still recording the students attendance using a paper chart?or else Do you record attendance in Excel sheet? Do you know that you can record students attendance in Moodle? Recording the attendance in Moodle will give you many advantages over the traditional paper chart method like: You can easily see a students attendance…

Source: https://www.moodlenews.com/2018/your-plugin-risks-deletion-in-europe-urgent-gdpr-advice-for-moodle-developers/ “Europe” by Tristan Ferne is licensed under CC BY 2.0 While Moodle HQ prepares to make the core of the open source LMS compliant with the soon-to-be-enforced General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by the European Commission, little attention has been given to the implications for Moodle plugins and third-party services. That is, until Moodle HQ’s Andrew Nicols started a Moodle Forum…

Source: https://www.moodlenews.com/2018/dont-be-square-try-this-radical-moodle-theme/ https://moodle.org/plugins/theme_squared Moodler Gareth Barnard partnered up with David Bogner on a new to update the theme: “square,” perhaps one of the Barnard’s boldest theme creations. The Moodle Theme has awoken after a long hiatus to become Moodle 3+ compatible. To understand “square” and how it deviates from what is usually found in Moodle, the theme’s description offers a glimpse into the creators’…